Monday, 9 February 2015

WHAT KIND OF BRITAIN DO YOU WANT TO SEE?

Last week's
A&E figures exposed the worst week the NHS has experienced in living
memory, with record numbers waiting over four hours to be seen, and hospitals
around the country declaring "major incident" status.

With the NHS
so important to everyone in this country, and the Tory NHS crisis worsening day
after day, it was a staggering omission by David Cameron this week to fail to make
the NHS as one of his six election themes.

Labour will
put health and the NHS at the heart of our election campaign because it’s the
right thing to do.

Our
new approach to public health, launched this week, forms part of a wider plan
to improve health and ensure the NHS remains affordable and sustainable in the
century of the ageing society.

The
plans include new pledges to take tougher action to protect children from
commercial pressures and the harm caused by alcohol, sugar and smoke and includes
a renewed focus on personal responsibility.

Alongside
our fully funded plan to raise £2.5 billion for a Time to Care Fund for the
NHS, it underlines Labour’s commitment to making sure the next generation is
healthier than the last and that we have an NHS we can all rely on.

David Cameron
does have a plan for the NHS but it is not one that will reassure people who
are worried about getting care now or keeping the NHS safe for the next
generation.

It is an
extreme plan for even deeper spending cuts which would take public spending
back to a share of national income last seen in the 1930s, when there was no
NHS and children left school at 14.

That is not
the sort of future I want to see.

Labour has
set out a new plan for Britain's future, a plan that works for ordinary
families, rewarding the hard work they do and saving the NHS they rely on.

The Labour Party

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